Fight or Flight revisited

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Well at Heroes & Other Worlds HQ (besides working on the monster book) I have worked on the Fight or Flight idea some more.  Thanks to lots of great input and some play-testing encounters I would like to humbly present a new take on Fight or Flight (morale) rules for your consideration:

Summary of FoF idea:

1)      Chance of Fight or Flight is based on the creatures behavior

2)      That number is a 3 die test-roll: under or equal means fight/roll over means flight

3)      A FoF Test occurs whenever:

A)      A member of the creature's side is killed

B)      A creature takes a total of 30+ damage in one turn

C)      The Referee decides to make one.

Making a test

The creature's behavior gives it the FoF #

• Cowardly (7)
• Unpredictable (10)
• Territorial (13)
• Aggressive (16)

Test is made by rolling 3 dice and comparing to the Behavior Number . (This is noted as 3/B#)

Rolling equal to or under the Behavior Number (B#) means the creature will continue to fight

Rolling over the B# means the creature will flee.

Fleeing

A fleeing creature and will move its full movement each turn away from its foes.  If it is cornered or unable to flee:

•  A Cowardly creature will surrender
• For Unpredictable creature roll 1d6: 1-3 it surrenders or 4-6 it fights  
• Territorial or Aggressive will turn and fight desperately.  It will attack at DX+1 and -1 IQ until it is able to flee or is killed.

NOTES

I want to make special note of testing option B) A creature taking 30 pts of damage in one turn. 

That means a coordinated party attack against a major high ST foe (Dragon, Frost Giant, etc.)  So rather than figuring ST levels and rolling, I used a massive damage done to influence the creature FoF roll for major creatures.

CHART ALTERNATE OPTION

As an alternative, here is an optional reaction chart. You could roll 2d6 on this chart (rather than test 3/B#) whenever a FoF test is necessary. In this version, when to make a FoF test is the same, but a DRM is applied to the 2d6 roll based on the creature's behavior:

• Cowardly +3 DRM
• Unpredictable: +1 DRM
• Territorial: -1 DRM
• Aggressive: -3 DRM

2d6 Roll              Reaction
 2- 5           Continues fighting, no reaction
 6-7            Hesitates, will not engage voluntarily this turn, but otherwise fights normally.
 8-9            Hesitates, will not take any attack option this turn.
 10-11       Break and run, will try to disengage and/or run off map away from danger.
 12+           Surrender - opponent drops to knees, drops weapons and tries to surrender.

Let me know what you think.